Necktie.



F. BENSON.

NEGKTIE.

APPLIUATION FILED mm: 22, 1909.

Patented Mar.22, 1910.

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FREDERICK BENSON, OF MEIDFORD, OREGON.

NEGKTIE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 22, 1910- Application filed June 22, 1909. Serial No. 503,672.

lar button.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple shield plate about which the material of the scarf or tie is folded to give the appearance of the ordinary four-in-hand tie and to secure to the rear portion of the folded tie a safety pin for holding the terminal end of the material and for providing a fastener for securing the tie to the front collar button.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a tie or scarf which may be quickly folded about a shield, any suitable piece of material being used for the purpose of forming the tie and said scarf when finished being ready to attach to the front collar button especially when used with turn down collars.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a scarf or tie made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear side elevation of the shield about which the scarf material is folded. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the shield with a piece of material passed through the loop connected thereto. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the next step required in the operation of folding the scarf material upon the shield. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the position of the material forming the scarf at the next step of the operation of attaching the scarf to the shield. Fig. 6 is a rear side elevation of the scarf or tie showing the manner of folding the material of the tie around the shield. Fig. 7 is an elevation showing the material completely folded upon the shield and ready to receive the combined attaching pin and fastener for at taching the tie to the collar button. Fig. 8

is a rear elevation of the tie complete with the pin and fastener attached thereto. Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view of the combined attaching pin and fastener disconnected from the tie.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 1 designates the shield preferably made from a single piece of thin sheet metal or other material, said shield being wider at its upper side than at its lower portion, and connected to the said shield is a diagonally extending bar or loop 2, preferably made of an elastic cord or a strand of wire secured at its ends in the diagonally opposite corners of the shield 1, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2.

The material of which the tie or scarf is formed may be a strip of silk or other suitable fabric, the edge of which may be turned back and seamed if desired. This strip 3 is passed through the loop 2 as shown in Fig. 3 and drawn to permit a short end 4 to extend at one side of the shield l. The strip 2 is then folded upward and over the top of the shield as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The short end 4 is then fold ed transversely around the front portion of the shield to form the knot 5 and to permit the portion 3 to depend from the shield as shown in Fig. 6. The short end 4 is then folded upon the back of the shield as shown in Fig. 7. 7

The attaching pin comprises the coil 6 having a pin 7 projecting therefrom upon one side of the coil while the guard member 8 of the pin rojects from the other side of the coil 6 and is formed into a sheath 9 for the pin 7. Extending from the same strand of wire is a necktie fastener consisting of an upwardly extending arm 10 bent laterally as at 11 and provided with a loop 12 from which extends the parallel member 13, bent laterally at 14, and having an arm or member 15 provided with a terminal eye 16. This pin is connected to the back of the tie, as shown in Fig. 8, the pin 7 being inserted in the tie material and connected to the sheath 9, thus leaving the necktie fastener in proper position to receive a collar button in the loop 12 for holding the tie or scarf in place under a turn down collar. By means of the bent portions 11 and 14 the shank of the collar button is reliably held in lace and is not liable to become accidenta ly disconnected from the fastener.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a necktie or scarf made up of a shield and the folded strip is of very simple construction and can be quickly manufactured "and folded over the top of the shield, the at low cost. With a shield constructed in opposite end of the strip being passed transaccordance with my invention a person versely around the shield and secured at 15 may use a variety of materials to form ties the back by a combined fastening pin and of different characters. necktie fastener. 3

Having thus described the invention what In testimony whereof I aflix my signature is claimed as new is in presence of two witnesses.

A necktie comprising a shield or plate having a loop connected to its rear surface, FRED B said loop. extending; diagonally from the WVit-nesses: 7 upper to the lower side of said plate, and. S. V. DAVIDOR, a. strip of material passed through. the loop l LILIAs EWING. 

